Visual functions of the thalamus

WM Usrey, HJ Alitto - Annual review of vision science, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The thalamus is the heavily interconnected partner of the neocortex. All areas of the
neocortex receive afferent input from and send efferent projections to specific thalamic …

Towards building a more complex view of the lateral geniculate nucleus: Recent advances in understanding its role

M Ghodrati, SM Khaligh-Razavi, SR Lehky - Progress in Neurobiology, 2017 - Elsevier
The lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) has often been treated in the past as a linear filter that
adds little to retinal processing of visual inputs. Here we review anatomical …

Anterior-posterior direction opponency in the superficial mouse lateral geniculate nucleus

JH Marshel, AP Kaye, I Nauhaus, EM Callaway - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
We show functional-anatomical organization of motion direction in mouse dorsal lateral
geniculate nucleus (dLGN) using two-photon calcium imaging of dense populations in …

Inferring nonlinear neuronal computation based on physiologically plausible inputs

JM McFarland, Y Cui, DA Butts - PLoS computational biology, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The computation represented by a sensory neuron's response to stimuli is constructed from
an array of physiological processes both belonging to that neuron and inherited from its …

Neural circuit to integrate opposing motions in the visual field

AS Mauss, K Pankova, A Arenz, A Nern, GM Rubin… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
When navigating in their environment, animals use visual motion cues as feedback signals
that are elicited by their own motion. Such signals are provided by wide-field neurons …

Delay controls chimera relay synchronization in multiplex networks

J Sawicki, I Omelchenko, A Zakharova, E Schöll - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
We study remote (or relay) synchronization in multilayer networks between parts of one layer
and their counterparts in a second layer, where these two layers are not directly connected …

Corticothalamic feedback sculpts visual spatial integration in mouse thalamus

G Born, FA Schneider-Soupiadis, S Erisken… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
En route from the retina to the cortex, visual information passes through the dorsolateral
geniculate nucleus (dLGN) of the thalamus, where extensive corticothalamic (CT) feedback …

How inhibitory circuits in the thalamus serve vision

JA Hirsch, X Wang, FT Sommer… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Inhibitory neurons dominate the intrinsic circuits in the visual thalamus. Interneurons in the
lateral geniculate nucleus innervate relay cells and each other densely to provide powerful …

The potential role of gap junctional plasticity in the regulation of state

P Coulon, CE Landisman - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Electrical synapses are the functional correlate of gap junctions and allow transmission of
small molecules and electrical current between coupled neurons. Instead of static pores …

Temporal precision in the visual pathway through the interplay of excitation and stimulus-driven suppression

DA Butts, C Weng, J **, JM Alonso… - Journal of …, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
Visual neurons can respond with extremely precise temporal patterning to visual stimuli that
change on much slower time scales. Here, we investigate how the precise timing of cat …